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 and how inferior to the New Christianity. However, as I have already announced, at the beginning of my investigation into the labours of Luther, I feel no less deeply the immense services which he has rendered to society, by the critical part of his reformation, in spite of his numberless errors. Moreover, my critique bears upon Protestantism only in as far as it is considered by Protestants to be a final representation of Christianity; but I am far from censuring the undaunted genius of Luther. If we reflect upon the times in which he lived, the circumstances against which he was compelled to struggle, we feel that he has done all that it was possible for him to do, in order to bring about and spread the reformation. In presenting morality as more deserving of the attention of the faithful than worship and dogma—although Protestant morality has not been proportioned to the light of modern civilization—Luther has prepared the new reformation of the Christian religion. It is not, however, as an improvement of Protestantism that we ought to regard New Christianity. The new formula under which I present the primitive principle of Christianity, is completely distinct from ameliorations of every kind which the Christian religion has experienced until this day.

I stop here. I think, Mr. Conservative, that I have sufficiently developed my ideas upon the New Christian doctrines, to enable you at present to form a first judgment upon them. Say, if you think me well imbued with the spirit of Christianity, and if my efforts to regenerate this sublime religion are of a nature to change its original purity.

Con. I have followed attentively your discourse. Whilst you were speaking, my own ideas became more clear, my doubts disappeared, and I felt my love and admiration of the Christian religion increase. My attachment to the religious system which has civilised Europe has not prevented me from comprehending the possibility of perfecting it; and upon this point you have entirely converted me.

It is evident that the principle of morality—"Let